Bible readers often gain a healthy respect for little things. They learn that small and humble things—when they have the authority of divine Spirit behind them—are vastly more powerful than big things that thunder and threaten and throw their material weight around.
Old Testament readers learn, for instance, how a God-fearing young shepherd named David—with only a slingshot and a few small stones to defend himself—slays a nine-foot-tall giant named Goliath. see I Sam. 17:23-50 They learn how God speaks to a prophet named Elijah—not in the tumult of wind or earthquake or fire, but in "a still small voice" that gently guides him. I Kings 19:11, 12 And they read that a Messiah will someday establish a reign of peace, where "a little child shall lead them." See Isa. 11:1-6
Then, in the New Testament, the Messiah actually arrives with Christ Jesus' marvelous career of teaching and healing. And Jesus too talks about the might of small things, meek things, spiritual things. He teaches his followers to be humble because it's those who are "as little children" in their own eyes who are "greatest in the kingdom of heaven." See Matt. 18:2-6
